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17 August 2016

Gunnar Wolf: Talking about the Debian keyring in Investigaciones Nucleares, UNAM

For the readers of my blog that happen to be in Mexico City, I was invited to give a talk at Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Ciudad Universitaria, UNAM.

I will be at Auditorio Marcos Moshinsky, on August 26 starting at 13:00. Auditorio Marcos Moshinsky is where we met for the early (~1996-1997) Mexico Linux User Group meetings. And... Wow. I'm amazed to realize it's been twenty years that I arrived there, young and innocent, the newest of what looked like a sect obsessed with world domination and a penguin fetish.
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Raphaël Hertzog: Freexian s report about Debian Long Term Support, July 2016

A Debian LTS logoLike each month, here comes a report about the work of paid contributors to Debian LTS. Individual reports In July, 136.6 work hours have been dispatched among 11 paid contributors. Their reports are available: Evolution of the situation The number of sponsored hours jumped to 159 hours per month thanks to GitHub joining as our second platinum sponsor (funding 3 days of work per month)! Our funding goal is getting closer but it s not there yet. The security tracker currently lists 22 packages with a known CVE and the dla-needed.txt file likewise. That s a sharp decline compared to last month. Thanks to our sponsors New sponsors are in bold.

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Jamie McClelland: Nice Work Apertium

For the last few years I have been periodically testing out apertium and today I did again and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the english-spanish and spanish-english translations (and also their nifty web site translator). So, I dusted off some of my geeky code to make it easier to use and continue testing. For starters... 
    sudo apt-get install apertium-en-es xclip coreutils
Then, I added the following to my .muttrc file: 
    macro pager <F2> "<enter-command>set pipe_decode<enter><pipe-entry> sed '1,/^$/d'   apertium es-en   less<enter><enter-command>unset pipe_decode<enter>" "translate from spanish"
If you press F2 while reading a message in spanish it will print out the English translation. If you use vim, you can create ~/.vim/plugins/apertium.vim with: 
    function s:Translate()
        silent !clear
        execute "! apertium en-es " . bufname("%") . "   tee >(xclip)"
    endfunction
    command Translate :call <SID>Translate()
Then, you can type the command: :Translate And it will display the English to Spanish translation of the file you are editing and copy the translation into your clip board so you can paste it into your document.

Rapha&#235;l Hertzog: My Free Software Activities in July 2016

My monthly report covers a large part of what I have been doing in the free software world. I write it for my donators (thanks to them!) but also for the wider Debian community because it can give ideas to newcomers and it s one of the best ways to find volunteers to work with me on projects that matter to me. DebConf 16 I was in South Africa for the whole week of DebConf 16 and gave 3 talks/BoF. You can find the slides and the videos in the links of their corresponding page: I was a bit nervous about the third BoF (on using Debian money to fund Debian projects) but discussed with many persons during the week and it looks like the project evolved quite a bit in the last 10 years and while it s still a sensitive topic (and rightfully so given the possible impacts) people are willing to discuss the issues and to experiment. You can have a look at the gobby notes that resulted from the live discussion. I spent most of the time discussing with people and I did not do much technical work besides trying (and failing) to fix accessibility issues with tracker.debian.org (help from knowledgeable people is welcome, see #830213). Debian Packaging I uploaded a new version of zim to fix a reproducibility issue (and forwarded the patch upstream). I uploaded Django 1.8.14 to jessie-backports and had to fix a failing test (pull request). I uploaded python-django-jsonfield 1.0.1 a new upstream version integrating the patches I prepared in June. I managed the (small) ftplib library transition. I prepared the new version in experimental, ensured reverse build dependencies do still build and coordinated the transition with the release team. This was all triggered by a reproducible build bug that I got and that made me look at the package last time upstream had disappeared (upstream URL was even gone) but it looks like he became active again and he pushed a new release. I filed wishlist bug #832053 to request a new deblog command in devscripts. It should make it easier to display current and former build logs. Kali related Debian work I worked on many issues that were affecting Kali (and Debian Testing) users: Thanks See you next month for a new summary of my activities.

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Michal &#268;iha&#345;: Weekly phpMyAdmin contributions 2016-W32

Tonight phpMyAdmin 4.0.10.17, 4.4.15.8, and 4.6.4 were released and you can probably see that there are quite some security issues fixed. Most of them are not really exploitable unless your PHP and webserver are poorly configured, but still it's good idea to upgrade. If you are running Debian unstable, use our phpMyAdmin PPA for Ubuntu or use phpMyAdmin Docker image upgrading should be as simple as pulling new version. Besides fixing security issues, we're generally hardening our infrastructure. I'm really grateful that Emanuel Bronshtein (@e3amn2l) is doing great review of all of our code and helps us in this area. This will really make our code and infrastructure much better. Handled issues:

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16 August 2016

Lars Wirzenius: 20 years ago I became a Debian developer

Today it is 23 years ago since Ian Murdock published his intention to develop a new Linux distribution, Debian. It also about 20 years since I became a Debian developer and made my first package upload. In the time since: It's been a good twenty years. And the fun ain't over yet.

15 August 2016

Shirish Agarwal: The road to TOR

Happy Independence Day to all. I had been looking forward to this day so I can use to share with my brothers and sisters what little I know about TOR . Independence means so many things to many people. For me, it means having freedom, valuing it and using it to benefit not just to ourselves but to people at large. And for that to happen, at least on the web, it has to rise above censorship if we are to get there at all. I am 40 years old, and if I can t read whatever I want to read without asking the state-military-Corporate trinity than be damned with that. Debconf was instrumental as I was able to understand and share many of the privacy concerns that we all have. This blog post is partly a tribute to being part of a community and being part of Debconf16. So, in that search for privacy couple of years ago, I came across TOR . TOR stands for The Onion Router project. Explaining tor is simple. Let us take the standard way in which we approach the website using a browser or any other means. a. We type out a site name, say debian.org in the URL/URI bar .
b. Now the first thing the browser would do is look into its DNS Cache to see if the name/URL has been used before. If it is something like debian.org which has been used before and is *fresh* and there is content already it would serve the content from the cache there itself.
c. In case, if it s not or the content is stale or something, it would generate a DNS lookup through the various routing tables till the DNS IP Address is found and information relayed to the browser.
d. The browser takes the IP Address and opens a TCP connection to the server, you have the handshake happen and after that it s business as usual.
e. In case if it doesn t work, you could get errors like Could not connect to server xyz or some special errors with error codes. This is a much simplified version of what happens or goes through normally with most/all of the browsers. One good way to see how the whole thing happens is to use traceroute and use the whois service. For e.g. [$] traceroute debian.org and then [$] whois 5.153.231.4 grep inetnum
inetnum: 5.153.231.0 - 5.153.231.255 Just using whois IP Address gives much more. I just shared a short version because I find it interesting that Debian has booked all 255 possible IP Addresses but speculating on that would be probably be a job for a different day. Now the difference when using TOR are two things a. The conversation is encrypted (somewhat like using https but encrypted through the relays)
b. The conversation is relayed over 2-3 relays and it will give a somewhat different identification to the DNS server at the other end.
c. It is only at the end-points that the conversation will be in plain text. For e.g. the TOR connection I m using atm is from me France (relay) Switzerland (relay) Germany (relay) WordPress.com . So wordpress thinks that all the connection is happening via Germany while I m here in India. It would also tells that I m running MS-Windows some version and a different browser while I m from somewhere in India, on Debian, using another browser altogether There are various motivations for doing that. For myself, I m just a private person and do not need or want that any other person/s or even the State should be looking over my shoulder as to what I m doing. And the argument that we need to spy on citizens because Terrorists are there doesn t hold water over me. There are many ways in which they can pass messages even without tor or web. The Government-Corporate-Military just get more powerful if and when they know what common people think, do, eat etc. So the question is how does you install tor if you a private sort of person . If you are on a Debian machine, you are one step closer to doing that. So the first thing that you need to do is install the following $ sudo aptitude install ooniprobe python-certifi tor tor-geoipdb torsocks torbrowser-launcher Once the above is done, then run torbrowser-launcher. This is how it would work out the first time it is run [$] torbrowser-launcher Tor Browser Launcher
By Micah Lee, licensed under MIT
version 0.2.6
https://github.com/micahflee/torbrowser-launcher
Creating GnuPG homedir /home/shirish/.local/share/torbrowser/gnupg_homedir
Downloading and installing Tor Browser for the first time.
Downloading https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/update_2/release/Linux_x86_64-gcc3/x/en-US
Latest version: 6.0.3
Downloading https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/6.0.3/tor-browser-linux64-6.0.3_en-US.tar.xz.asc
Downloading https://dist.torproject.org/torbrowser/6.0.3/tor-browser-linux64-6.0.3_en-US.tar.xz
Verifying signature
Extracting tor-browser-linux64-6.0.3_en-US.tar.xz
Running /home/shirish/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/start-tor-browser.desktop
Launching './Browser/start-tor-browser --detach'... As can be seen above, you basically download the tor browser remotely from the website. Obviously, for this port 80 needs to be opened. One of the more interesting things is that it tells you where it installs the browser. /home/shirish/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser and then detaches. The first time the TOR browser actually runs it looks something similar to this
Torbrowser picture

Torbrowser picture

Additionally it would give you 4 choices. Depending on your need for safety, security and convenience you make a choice and live with it. Now the only thing remaining to do is have an alias for your torbrowser. So I made [$] alias tor tor=/home/shirish/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/start-tor-browser It is suggested that you do not use the same usernames on the onion network. Also apart from the regular URL addresses such as flossexperiences.wordpress.com you will also see sites such as https://www.abc12defgh3ijkl.onion.to (fictional address) Now there would be others who would want to use the same/similar settings say as there are in their Mozilla Firefox installation. To do that do the following steps a. First close down both Torbrowser and Mozilla Firefox .
b. Open your file browser and go to where your mozilla profile details are. In typical Debian installations it is at ~/.mozilla/firefox/5r7t1r92.default In the next tab, navigate to ~/.local/share/torbrowser/tbb/x86_64/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Data/Browser/profile.default c. Now copy the following files over from your mozilla profile to your tor browser profile and you can resume where you left off.
    cert8.db
    chromeappsstore.sqlite
    content-prefs.sqlite
    cookies.sqlite
    formhistory.sqlite
    key3.db
    logins.json (Firefox 32 and above)
    mimeTypes.rdf
    permissions.sqlite
    persdict.dat
    places.sqlite
    signons3.txt (if exists)
    webappsstore.sqlite
and the following folders/directories
    bookmarkbackups
    chrome (if it exists)
    searchplugins (if it exists)
Once the above is done, fire up your torbrowser with the alias shared. This is usually put it in your .bashrc file or depending on whatever terminal interpreter you use, wherever the config file will be. Welcome to the world of TOR. Now, after a time if you benefit from tor and would like to give back to the tor community, you should look up tor bridges and relay. As the blog post has become long enough, I would end it now and hopefully we can talk about tor bridges and relay some other day.
Filed under: Miscellenous Tagged: #anonymity, #Debconf16, #debian, #tor, #torbrowser, GNU, Linux, Privacy

Russ Allbery: Review: Winds of Fate

Review: Winds of Fate, by Mercedes Lackey
Series: Mage Winds #1
Publisher: DAW
Copyright: 1991
Printing: July 1992
ISBN: 0-88677-516-7
Format: Mass market
Pages: 460
As a kid working my way through nearly everything in the children's section of the library, I always loved book series, since it meant I could find a lot more of something I liked. But children's book series tended to be linear, with a well-defined order. When I moved into the adult SF section, I encountered a new type of series: one that moves backwards and forwards in time to fill in a broader story. I mention that here because Winds of Fate, although well into the linked series that make up Valdemar, was one of the first Valdemar books I read. (I think it was the first, but my memory is hazy.) Therefore, in my brain, this is where the story of Valdemar "begins": with Elspeth, a country that has other abilities but has forgotten about magic, a rich world full of various approaches to magic, and very pushy magic horses. Talia's story, and particularly Vanyel's, were always backstory, the events that laid the groundwork for Elspeth's story. (I didn't encounter Tarma and Kethry until somewhat later.) Read now in context, this is obviously not the case. The Mage Winds trilogy, of which this is the first book, are clearly sequels to the Arrows of the Queen trilogy. Valdemar was victorious in the first round of war with Ancar, but the Heralds have slowly (and with great difficulty) become aware of their weakness against magic and their surprising lack of it. Elspeth has grown into the role of heir, but she's also one of the few who find it easy to talk about and think about magic (perhaps due to her long association with Kerowyn, who came into Valdemar from the outside world in By the Sword). She therefore takes on the mission of finding an Adept who can return to Valdemar, solve the mystery of whatever is keeping magic out of the kingdom, and start training mages for the kingdom again. Meanwhile, we get the first viewpoint character from the Tayledras: the elf-inspired mages who work to cleanse the Pelagiris forests from magic left over from a long-ago war. They appeared briefly in Vanyel's story, since his aunt was friends with a farther-north tribe of them and Valdemar of the time had contact with mages. Darkwind and his people are far to the south, up against the rim of the Dhorisha crater. Something has gone horribly wrong with Heartstone of the k'Sheyna, his tribe: it cracked when being drained, killing most of the experienced mages including Darkwind's mother, and now it is subtly wrong, twisting and undermining the normal flow of magic inside their Vale. In the aftermath of that catastrophe, Darkwind has forsworn magic and become a scout, putting him sharply at odds with his father. And it's a matter of time before less savory magic users in the area realize how vulnerable k'Sheyna is. Up to this point in the Valdemar series, Lackey primarily did localized world-building to support the stories and characters she was writing about. Valdemar and its Heralds and Companions have been one of the few shared elements, and only rarely did the external magic-using world encounter them. Here, we get the first extended contact between the fairly naive Heralds and experienced mages who understand how they and their Companions fit into the broader system of magic. We also finally get the origin of the Dhorisha Plains and the Tayledras and Shin'a'in, and a much better sense of the broader history of this world. And Need, which started as Kethry's soul-bonded sword and then became Kerowyn's, joins the story in a much more active way. The world-building is a definite feature if you like this sort of thing. It doesn't withstand too much thinking about the typical sword and sorcery lack of technology, but for retroactive coherence constructed from originally scattered stories, it's pretty fun. (I suspect part of why I like the Valdemar world-building is that it feels a lot like large shared universe world-building in comics.) And Need is the high point of the story: she brings a much-needed cynical stubbornness to the cast and is my favorite character in this book. What is not a feature, unfortunately, is the characterization. Darkwind is okay but a largely unremarkable here, more another instance of the troubled but ethical Tayledras type than a clearly defined character. But Elspeth is just infuriating, repeatedly making decisions and taking hard positions that seem entirely unwarranted by the recorded events of the book. This is made worse by how frequently she's shown to be correct in ways that seem like authorial cheating. At times, it feels like she's the heroine by authorial fiat, not because she's doing a particularly good job. I can muster some sympathy for not wanting to follow the plan of the Companions when it became clear they were acting entirely out of character and actively intervening, but she expresses that with petulant, childish insistence rather than reasoned argument. And she suddenly decides Skif is in love with her and treating her like a fragile princess on the basis of absolutely no action that occurs on camera in this book so far as I can tell, and proceeds to treat him like dirt for large sections of the book. That Skif then lives down to this suddenly negative impression doesn't help. This book also has quite a lot of the U-shaped story arc in which everything gets worse and more horrific and more hopeless for the heroes over the course of the book until it turns into torture, and only then do they manage to claw their way back out. I've come to dislike this way of building tension. It's undeniably effective, but the parts of the story near the bottom of the U are difficult and painful reading. I prefer a bit more evenly-spread hurt/comfort storytelling in my popcorn fantasy reading. Winds of Fate is, sadly, not a very good book. Most of the characterization is intensely irritating, the writing is a bit uneven, and the middle section of the book is rather painful to read. For me, though, that's balanced by the world-building and the sense of broadened scope, by Need's abrasive decisiveness, and by some really entertaining reactions to the combination of Elspeth, Need, and her Companion walking naive into the broader world. I still have a fond spot in my heart for it, but I'm hoping the remaining books of the trilogy are better. Rating: 6 out of 10

Paul Tagliamonte: Minica - lightweight TLS for everyone!

A while back, I found myself in need of some TLS certificates set up and issued for a testing environment. I remembered there was some code for issuing TLS certs in Docker, so I yanked some of that code and made a sensable CLI API over it. Thus was born minica! Something as simple as minica tag@domain.tls domain.tld will issue two TLS certs (one with a Client EKU, and one server) issued from a single CA. Next time you re in need of a few TLS keys (without having to worry about stuff like revocation or anything), this might be the quickest way out!

14 August 2016

Reproducible builds folks: Reproducible Builds: week 68 in Stretch cycle

What happened in the Reproducible Builds effort between Sunday August 7 and Saturday August 13 2016: GSoC and Outreachy updates Reproducible work in other projects Thomas Schmitt scdbackup@gmx.net implemented a new -as mkisofs option: 
--set_all_file_dates timestring
Set mtime, atime, and ctime of all files and directories to  the
given time.
Valid  timestring  formats  are:  'Nov  8  14:51:13  CET  2007',
110814512007.13, 2007110814511300. See also --modification-date=
and man xorriso, Examples of input timestrings.
This  action  stays  delayed until mkisofs emulation ends. Up to
then it  can  be  revoked  by  --set_all_file_dates  with  empty
timestring.   In  any  case  files  which get into the ISO after
mkisofs emulation ended will not  be  affected,  unless  another
mkisofs emulation applies --set_all_file_date again.
LEDE developer Jonas Gorski submitted a patch to fix build times in their kernel: 
kernel: allow reproducable builds
Similar how we fix the file times in the filesystems, fix the build time
of the kernel, and make the build number static. This should allow the
kernel build to be reproducable when combined with setting the
KERNEL\_BUILD\_USER and \_DOMAIN in case of different machines.
The reproducability only applies to non-initramfs kernels, those still
require additional changes.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <jonas.gorski@gmail.com>
Packages reviewed and fixed, and bugs filed Patches have been submitted by: Package reviews 28 reviews have been added, 4 have been updated and 7 have been removed in this week, adding to our knowledge about identified issues. Issue types have been added/updated: Weekly QA work FTBFS bugs have been reported by: diffoscope development strip-nondeterminism development tests.reproducible-builds.org Misc. Chris started to ping old bugs with patches and no maintainer reaction so far. This week's edition was written by Chris Lamb and Holger Levsen and reviewed by a bunch of Reproducible Builds folks on IRC.

Sven Hoexter: handling html mails with mutt and convincing Icedove to open http/https links in Firefox

... or the day I fixed my mail clients running on Debian/stretch. First of all mutt failed to open html mails or the html multipart stuff in Firefox. I found some interesting hints in a recent thread on debian-user. So now my "~/.mailcap" looks like this: 
text/html; /usr/bin/firefox --new-tab %s;
text/html; /usr/bin/elinks -force-html -dump %s; copiousoutput
and I added the proposed "~/.muttrc" addition verbatim: 
bind  attach  <return>  view-mailcap
alternative_order text/plain text/html
unauto_view *
auto_view text/html
For work related mails, where the use of html crap mails is a sad reality I can not avoid, I stick to Icedove. But beside of the many crashes everyone encountered recently it also crashes when I try to reach "Preferences -> Advanced -> Config Editor". So no chance to adjust the handling of http/https links in the UI. Luckily that configuration is still text, well XML, in a file called mimeTypes.rdf in in the profile directory. So I manually replaced "/usr/bin/iceweasel" with "/usr/bin/firefox" and a restart later clicking on http and https links works again. Yay.

David Moreno: Ruby and libv8: Exactly my feelings

Thanks to my coworker Dan for making a whole bunch of these based on our day job adventures :)

David Moreno: Deploying a Dancer app on Heroku

There s a few different posts out there on how to run Perl apps, such as Mojolicious-based, on Heroku, but I d like to show how to deploy a Perl Dancer application on Heroku. The startup script of a Dancer application (bin/app.pl) can be used as a PSGI file. With that in mind, I was able to take the good work of Miyagawa s Heroku buildpack for general PSGI apps and hack it a little bit to use Dancer s, specifically. What I like about Miyagawa s approach is that uses the fantastic cpanm and makes it available within your application, instead of the monotonous cpan, to solve dependencies. Let s make a simple Dancer app to show how to make this happen: 
/tmp $ dancer -a heroku
+ heroku
+ heroku/bin
+ heroku/bin/app.pl
+ heroku/config.yml
+ heroku/environments
+ heroku/environments/development.yml
+ heroku/environments/production.yml
+ heroku/views
+ heroku/views/index.tt
+ heroku/views/layouts
+ heroku/views/layouts/main.tt
+ heroku/MANIFEST.SKIP
+ heroku/lib
heroku/lib/
+ heroku/lib/heroku.pm
+ heroku/public
+ heroku/public/css
+ heroku/public/css/style.css
+ heroku/public/css/error.css
+ heroku/public/images
+ heroku/public/500.html
+ heroku/public/404.html
+ heroku/public/dispatch.fcgi
+ heroku/public/dispatch.cgi
+ heroku/public/javascripts
+ heroku/public/javascripts/jquery.js
+ heroku/t
+ heroku/t/002_index_route.t
+ heroku/t/001_base.t
+ heroku/Makefile.PL
Now, you already know that by firing perl bin/app.pl you can get your development server up and running. So I ll just proceed to show how to make this work on Heroku, you should already have your development environment configured for it: 
/tmp $ cd heroku/
/tmp/heroku $ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /private/tmp/heroku/.git/
/tmp/heroku :master $ git add .
/tmp/heroku :master $ git commit -a -m 'Dancer on Heroku'
[master (root-commit) 6c0c55a] Dancer on Heroku
22 files changed, 809 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 MANIFEST
create mode 100644 MANIFEST.SKIP
create mode 100644 Makefile.PL
create mode 100755 bin/app.pl
create mode 100644 config.yml
create mode 100644 environments/development.yml
create mode 100644 environments/production.yml
create mode 100644 lib/heroku.pm
create mode 100644 public/404.html
create mode 100644 public/500.html
create mode 100644 public/css/error.css
create mode 100644 public/css/style.css
create mode 100755 public/dispatch.cgi
create mode 100755 public/dispatch.fcgi
create mode 100644 public/favicon.ico
create mode 100644 public/images/perldancer-bg.jpg
create mode 100644 public/images/perldancer.jpg
create mode 100644 public/javascripts/jquery.js
create mode 100644 t/001_base.t
create mode 100644 t/002_index_route.t
create mode 100644 views/index.tt
create mode 100644 views/layouts/main.tt
/tmp/heroku :master $
And now, run heroku create, please note the buildpack URL, http://github.com/damog/heroku-buildpack-perl.git: 
/tmp/heroku :master $ heroku create --stack cedar --buildpack http://github.com/damog/heroku-buildpack-perl.git
Creating blazing-beach-7280... done, stack is cedar
http://blazing-beach-7280.herokuapp.com/   git@heroku.com:blazing-beach-7280.git
Git remote heroku added
/tmp/heroku :master $
And just push: 
/tmp/heroku :master $ git push heroku master
Counting objects: 34, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (30/30), done.
Writing objects: 100% (34/34), 40.60 KiB, done.
Total 34 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0)
-----> Heroku receiving push
-----> Fetching custom buildpack... done
-----> Perl/PSGI Dancer! app detected
-----> Bootstrapping cpanm
Successfully installed JSON-PP-2.27200
Successfully installed CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.008
Successfully installed Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.4404 (upgraded from 1.39)
Successfully installed version-0.99 (upgraded from 0.77)
Successfully installed Module-Metadata-1.000009
Successfully installed CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122
Successfully installed CPAN-Meta-2.120921
Successfully installed Perl-OSType-1.002
Successfully installed ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280205 (upgraded from 0.2602)
Successfully installed ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.15 (upgraded from 2.2002)
Successfully installed Module-Build-0.4001 (upgraded from 0.340201)
Successfully installed App-cpanminus-1.5015
12 distributions installed
-----> Installing dependencies
Successfully installed ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.62 (upgraded from 6.55_02)
Successfully installed YAML-0.84
Successfully installed Test-Simple-0.98 (upgraded from 0.92)
Successfully installed Try-Tiny-0.11
Successfully installed HTTP-Server-Simple-0.44
Successfully installed HTTP-Server-Simple-PSGI-0.14
Successfully installed URI-1.60
Successfully installed Test-Tester-0.108
Successfully installed Test-NoWarnings-1.04
Successfully installed Test-Deep-0.110
Successfully installed LWP-MediaTypes-6.02
Successfully installed Encode-Locale-1.03
Successfully installed HTTP-Date-6.02
Successfully installed HTML-Tagset-3.20
Successfully installed HTML-Parser-3.69
Successfully installed Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.052 (upgraded from 2.020)
Successfully installed Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.054 (upgraded from 2.020)
Successfully installed IO-Compress-2.052 (upgraded from 2.020)
Successfully installed HTTP-Message-6.03
Successfully installed HTTP-Body-1.15
Successfully installed MIME-Types-1.35
Successfully installed HTTP-Negotiate-6.01
Successfully installed File-Listing-6.04
Successfully installed HTTP-Daemon-6.01
Successfully installed Net-HTTP-6.03
Successfully installed HTTP-Cookies-6.01
Successfully installed WWW-RobotRules-6.02
Successfully installed libwww-perl-6.04
Successfully installed Dancer-1.3097
29 distributions installed
-----> Installing Starman
Successfully installed Test-Requires-0.06
Successfully installed Hash-MultiValue-0.12
Successfully installed Devel-StackTrace-1.27
Successfully installed Test-SharedFork-0.20
Successfully installed Test-TCP-1.16
Successfully installed Class-Inspector-1.27
Successfully installed File-ShareDir-1.03
Successfully installed Filesys-Notify-Simple-0.08
Successfully installed Devel-StackTrace-AsHTML-0.11
Successfully installed Plack-0.9989
Successfully installed Net-Server-2.006
Successfully installed HTTP-Parser-XS-0.14
Successfully installed Data-Dump-1.21
Successfully installed Starman-0.3001
14 distributions installed
-----> Discovering process types
Procfile declares types -&amp;gt; (none)
Default types for Perl/PSGI Dancer! -&amp;gt; web
-----> Compiled slug size is 2.7MB
-----> Launching... done, v4
http://blazing-beach-7280.herokuapp.com deployed to Heroku
To git@heroku.com:blazing-beach-7280.git
* [new branch] master -&amp;gt; master
/tmp/heroku :master $
And you can confirm it works: Please note that the environment it runs on is deployment . The backend server it uses is the great Starman, also by the great Miyagawa. Now, if you add or change dependencies on Makefile.PL, next time you push, those will get updated. Very cool, right? :)

David Moreno: I quit

I just recently quit my job at the startup company I had been working in for almost five years. In startup terms, such long time might be a whole lifetime, but in my case, I grew liking it more and more as the years came, I had evolved from being just another engineer, to lead a team of seven great developers, with decision-making tasks and strategy planning for our technical infrastructure. It s been such a great long teaching journey that I m nothing but pleased with my own performance, learned lessons and skills and all I provided and was provided by the project. Leaving a city like New York is not an easy task. You have it all there, you start making a life and suddenly, before you know it, you already have a bunch of ties to the place, people, leases, important dates, all kinds of shit. Seriously, all kinds of crazy ass shit start to fill up your baggage. You wake up everyday to get into the subway and commute surrounded by all of this people that are just like you: so similar yet so immensely different. No, leaving the city is not an easy task, it s not something to take lightly. You know how people just say my cycle has ended in this place as an euphemism not to end in bad terms with anyone? Well, ending a cycle is indeed a reality, I got to a point where I felt like I needed to head into a different direction, take on new challenges and overall, peace out and hope the best to everyone, specially to myself. This was me, on my last day at work, last Friday of June: (Some) people seem to be anxious to know what I m doing next, and my answer is, go mind your own fucking business. However, life is short and I would love to do any of the following: Decisions, decisions For the time being, I m chilling with my people, friends and family in beautiful Mexico City. I ve been doing so for the entire month of July and I couldn t be more content. August will see my 28th birthday and as I approach thirty, I believe I need to continue moving forward. This stupid world is a tiny place and our lives are short, I for one, will definitively try to take the bull by the horns. Thanks for reading, more updates soon. Peace.

Jaminy Prabaharan: GSoC-2016 Journey (In brief)

Three months of coding is about to end.It has officially begun on May 23rd and we are getting near to the final submission deadline on August 15th.

You can checkout my Debian wiki page to know more about myself.

I have worked on improving voice, video and chat communication (Real Time Communication) with free software, one of the RTC project for Debian.

My mentors are Iain.R.Learmonth and Daniel Pocock.Both of them were dedicative and I could learn many new things from them within these three months.I have contacted my mentors through personal mail, Debian outreach mailing lists and IRC(#debian-data and #debian-soc). They were very responsive to my queries. Thank you Iain and Daniel for improving and enlightening me.

My initial task is e-mail mining. I have to allow the client to login to the mail using IMAP, extracts the To , From and CC headers of every email message in the folder and then scan for the phone numbers, SIP addresses, XMPP addresses in the body of the message.These extracted details should be written in the CSV file also.The extracted phone numbers, SIP addresses, XMPP addresses and ham call signs should be made into a click able link using Flask.

I have also attended DebConf-16 (conference of Debian developers, contributors and users) in Cape Town in the middle of three months (Form July 2nd to July 9th).I gave a talk on my progressing GSoC project.I have learnt many new things about Debian, their projects and their packages apart form my GSoC project.I have met Debian developers, contribuors and some of the fellow GSoC students.

I have written previous blog posts related to GSoC-2016 in the following links.

GSoC-Journey till Mid term

Weekly Report for GSoC16-week 1 and week2

Weekly Report for GSoC16-Community bonding period

Weekly reports sent to Debian-outreach list.

Email-Mining is the repository I have created on GitHub to work on my project.

I have divided the tasks and coded individually to combine together.Snippet folder in the file contains the code for each tasks.

Following are the commits I have made in the repository.

https://github.com/Jaminy/Email-Mining/commits/master My tasks have been extended to add a gravatar on the page listing details for each email address, maintain a counter for each hour of the day in the scraper for each mail, show a list of other people that have been involved in email conversations and make the contact information on the detail pages machine readable. https://github.com/Jaminy/Email-Mining/issues

My mentor suggested me to work on at least three issues before final submission.I have worked on each of them individually in the snippet folder except the last one.I will be working on it after GSoC.

Mailmine.py script contains the final code which combines all snippets into one.

Three pull requests are to be merged after the confirmation from my mentor.

These are the abstract about what I have done within these three months.

It was an amazing and thrilling coding ride.

Stay tuned for the elaborated blog posts with DebConf experience and many more.

David Moreno: One year

A year ago today, I started working for Booking.com. I wish I could say that the time has flown by, but it really hasn t. It has been one hell of a ride on all fronts: work, learning experiences, friends, but specially at home, since working for this company didn t come without a complete life change. So far so good, and for that I m grateful :)

David Moreno: Twitter feed for Planet Perl Iron Man

I like to read Planet Perl Iron Man, but since I m less and less of a user of Google Reader these days, I prefer to follow interesting feeds on Twitter instead: I don t have to digest all of the content on my timeline, only when I m in the mood to see what s going on out there. So, if you wanna follow the account, find it as @perlironman. If interested, you can also follow me. That is all.

David Moreno: Feedbag released under MIT license

I was contacted by Pivotal Labs regarding licensing of Feedbag. I guess releasing open source software as GPL only makes sense if you continue to live under a rock. I ve bumped the version to 0.9 and released it under MIT license. Feedbag 1.0, which I plan to work on during the following days will bring in a brand new shiny backend powered by Nokogiri, instead of Hpricot (I mean, give me a break, I m trying to catch up with the Ruby community, after all I m primarily a Perl guy :D) and hopefully I will be able to recreate most of the feed auto-discovery test suite that Mark Pilgrim retired (410 Gone) when he committed infosuicide. Have a good weekend!

David Moreno: RVM + Rake tasks on Cron jobs

RVM hates my guts. And it doesn t matter, because I hate RVM back even more. Since I was technologically raised by aging wolfs, I have strong reasons to believe that you just shouldn t have mixed versions of software on your production systems, specially, if a lot of things are poorly tested, like most of Ruby libraries, aren t backward compatible. I was raised on a world where everything worked greatly because the good folks at projects like Debian or Perl have some of the greatest QA processes of all time, hands down. So, when someone introduces a thing like RVM which not only promotes having hundreds of different versions of the same software, both on development, testing and production environments, but also encourages poor quality looking back and looking forward, there isn t anything else but to lose faith in humanity. But enough for ranting. I had to deliver this side project that works with the Twitter API and the only requirement pretty much was that it had to be both run from the shell but also loaded as a class within a Ruby script. And so I did everything locally with my great local installation of Ruby 1.8.7. When it came the time to load on the testing/production server I found myself on a situation where pathetic RVM was installed. After spending hours trying to accommodate my changes to run properly with Ruby 1.9.2, I set up a cron job using crontab to run my shit every now and then. And the shit wasn t even running properly. Basically, my crontab line looked something like this: 
*/30 * * * * cd /home/david/myproject && rake awesome_task
And that was failing, crontab was returning some crazy shit like Ruby and/or RubyGems cannot find the rake gem . Seriously? Then I thought, well, maybe my environment needs to be loaded and whatever, so I made a bash script with something like this: 
#!/bin/bash
cd /home/david/myproject
/full/path/to/rvm/bin/rake -f Rakefile awesome_task
And that was still failing with the same error. So after trying to find out how cron jobs and crontab load Bash source files, I took a look at how Debian starts its shell upon login. And while that didn t tell me that much that I didn t know, I went to look at the system-wide /etc/profile and found a gem, a wonderful directory /etc/profile.d/ where a single shitty file was sitting, smiling back at me, like waiting for me to find it out and swear on all problems in life: rvm.sh. /etc/profile is not being loaded when I just run /bin/bash by my crappy script, only when I log in, I should ve known this. Doesn t RVM solve the issue of having system-wide installations so the user doesn t have to deal with, you know, anything outside of his own /home ? So I had to go ahead and do: 
#!/bin/bash
source /etc/profile
cd /home/david/myproject
/full/path/to/rvm/bin/rake -f Rakefile awesome_task
And hours later I was able to continue with work. Maybe this will help some poor bastard like myself on similar situation on the future. Of course one can argue that I could ve installed my own RVM and its Ruby versions, but why, oh why, if it was, apparently, already there. Why would I have to fiddle with the Ruby installations if all I want is get my shit done and head to City Bakery where I can spend that money I just earned on chocolate cookies? My work is pretty simple to run with pretty much any ancient version of Ruby, nothing fancy (unless you call MongoMapper fancy). RVM is a great project that doesn t solve an issue, but just hides some really fucked up shit on the Ruby community.

Jamie McClelland: Noam use Gnome

I don't quite remember when I read John Goerzen's post about teaching a 4 year old to use the linux command line with audio on planet Debian. According to the byline it was published nearly 2 years before Noam was born, but I seem to remember reading it in the weeks after his birth when I was both thrilled at the prospect of teaching my kid to use the command line and, in my sleepless stupor, not entirely convinced he would ever be old enough. Well, the time came this morning. He found an old USB key board and discovered that a green light came on when he plugged it in. He was happily hitting the keys when Meredith suggested we turn on the monitor and open a program so he could see the letters appear on the screen and try to spell his name. After 10 minutes in Libre Office I remembered John's blog and was inspired to start writing a bash script in my head (I would have to stop the fun with Libre Office to write it so the pressure was on...). In the end it was only a few minutes and I came up with: 
#!/bin/bash
while [ 1 ]; do
  read -p "What shall I say? "
  espeak "$REPLY"
done
It was a hit. He said what he wanted to hear and hit the keys, my job was to spell for him. Noam uses Gnome Terminal to talk Oh, also: he discovered key combinations that did things that were unsurprising to me (like taking the screen grab above) and also things that I'm still scratching my head about (like causing a prompt on the screen that said: "Downloading shockwave plugin." No thanks. And, how did he do that?

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